267. Areallinguistik I. Ligurien / Aree linguistiche I. Liguria

Forner, Werner

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“…In this paper, we contribute to this aim by conducting an empirical study on two (typologically and genetically) close varieties, which only differ in one crucial phonological feature, namely vowel length. These varieties are Genoese and Ventimigliese, two Italo-Romance dialects belonging to the Ligurian group ( [8]). While Genoese displays vowel length contrasts (among others, [8], [9], [10] and [11]), in Ventimigliese vowel length does not seem to have phonemic status ( [12], [13]).…”

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“…These varieties are Genoese and Ventimigliese, two Italo-Romance dialects belonging to the Ligurian group ( [8]). While Genoese displays vowel length contrasts (among others, [8], [9], [10] and [11]), in Ventimigliese vowel length does not seem to have phonemic status ( [12], [13]). Instead, some recent studies have shown that utterance-final lengthening is at play in both Genoese and Ventimigliese ( [13]).…”

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"No duration without intonation": The interplay of lexical and post-lexical durational differences

Garassino¹,

Cangemi²

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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Current research in typology has shown that durational effects at the phonetic level can have a profound impact on vowel length. Quantity languages, for instance, often display constraints on final lengthening in order to maintain contrasts between short and long vowels. We contribute to this typology by considering two closely-related Italo-Romance varieties, Genoese and Ventimigliese, which differ in one crucial feature: vowel length. According to the literature, quantity contrasts should be well-attested in Genoese but not in Ventimigliese. An acoustic analysis based on the duration of stressed syllables suggests that the two varieties may be different not so much in vowel length as in their intonation. Unlike Genoese, Ventimigliese displays longer syllables in the utterance-internal than in the final position. This could be due to the pressure of the Ventimigliese utterance-internal position to adjust to a higher F0. It remains to be seen whether this is due to differences in tone structure. All in all, we claim that only a comprehensive study of prosody and intonation can enlighten durational patterns in language typology.

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"No duration without intonation": The interplay of lexical and post-lexical durational differences

Garassino¹,

Cangemi²

2020

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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance

Andriani

Groothuis

Silvestri

2020

Probus

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The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation. The first case-study revolves around the expression of future tense and modality. This is discussed in the light of the assumption according to which grammaticalised elements result from merging elements in higher positions than their original merge positions within the lexical domain, giving rise to the upward directionality of the grammaticalisation process within the clause (Roberts, Ian G. and Anna Roussou, 2003, Syntactic change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The second case study challenges this view, by discussing irrealis complementisers as a case of a downward pathway of grammaticalization at the CP level. For our third case study, namely the development of (discontinuous) demonstrative structures from Latin to Romance, the rich Italo-Romance empirical evidence is analysed through the lens of a parametric account (Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini, and Andrea Ceolin, 2013, Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages, Journal of Historical Linguistics 3(1), 122-152), in order to capture the role of the relevant semantic and syntactic features within the fine-grained architecture of the DP. It will be observed that the diachronic development of some functional categories in (Italo-)Romance results from cyclic pathways of grammaticalisation, as the same category might cyclically change from more synthetic to more analytic, and vice-versa. Moreover, it will also be shown how the two theoretical approaches adopted, i.e. the cartographic model (adopted in Roberts, Ian G. and Anna Roussou, 2003. Syntactic change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), and the parametric accounts (Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini and Andrea Ceolin, 2013, Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages, Journal of Historical Linguistics 3(1), 122-152), are able to provide a principled explanation of the structural correlates of grammaticalisation at the sentential, clausal and nominal level of investigation.

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Stefano De Franchi e il dialetto genovese rusticale

Ziano

2021

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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The paper deals with the particular linguistic variety spoken by some servants in Stefano De Franchi’s comedies (1714‒1785). After briefly hinting at some fundamental aspects of his production (§1), we examine the text of his comedies (§2) and analyze the servants’ language. This variety presents numerous traits which do not belong to Genoese (§3), some others which will spread in the urban variety only between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (§4) and many others which had been expelled from it between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries (§5). Finally (§6), the linguistic analysis of Gerusalemme Liberata’s Genoese translation (1755) will allow us to order chronologically the linguistic relics of §5.

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267. Areallinguistik I. Ligurien / Aree linguistiche I. Liguria

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"No duration without intonation": The interplay of lexical and post-lexical durational differences

"No duration without intonation": The interplay of lexical and post-lexical durational differences

Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance

Stefano De Franchi e il dialetto genovese rusticale

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